He is the eldest son of Shahzada Mohiuddin, former Federal Minister and Member National Assembly. Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin was born on 15 August 1969 into the ruling family of Chitral. He is the great-grandson of His Highness Sir Shuja Ul Mulk, the Mehtar of Chitral.
He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from State University of New York Binghamton, United States of America, and his Master of Business Administration in International Business from the University of Birmingham–United Kingdom.
He specializes in economic growth, value chain project management, workforce and private sector development and has worked as Director Value Chain and Program Director in major United States Agency for International Development funded projects in a professional career spanning 14 years. The United States based organizations he has been affiliated with include ABT. He also worked with National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) and Aga Khan Rural Support Programme. He has undertaken consultancy work with United States of America based ShoreBank International (SBI) on studies mandated by the State Bank of Pakistan.
Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin took up politics permanently after his father retired from active political life.
He was the runner-up for the NA seat in 2002 elections. The loss came in spite of the fact that months earlier his father had been elected as the District Nazim, but owing to 9/11 and anti American feelings the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal came to power throughout North-West Frontier Province. Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin served as the covering candidate for General Pervez Musharraf in the Pakistani general election, 2013.
Musharraf was eventually not allowed to contest elections and was detained in his Chak Shahzad farmhouse on charges of conspiracy to murder two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, violating the Constitution of Pakistan and imposing martial law and state of emergency in the country.
The elections on 11 May marked the first transition between two democratically elected governments in the 65-year history of Pakistan He is a member of the National Assembly Standing Committees on Industries & Production and Planning and Development.
